Lincoln Memorial

 

The building (architect: Henry Beacon) was constructed in the style of a classical Greek temple with 36 columns meant to represent the Union at the time of Abraham Lincoln's death.

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

 

Dedicated in November 1982 The V-shaped memorial consists of two 250-ft walls of polished black granite sloping to the ground from an apex of 10 feet. The walls are inscribed with the names of the more than 58,000 U.S. men and women who were killed or missing in the Vietnam War.

Washington Monument

 

The actual construction of the monument began in 1848 and was not completed until 1884, almost 30 years after the architect's death, due to lack of funds and the intervention of the Civil War.

The White House  

 

George Washington and city planner Pierre L'Enfant chose the site for the White House (or "President's House," as it was called before whitewashing brought the name "White House" into use) and staged a contest to find a builder. Although Washington picked the winner -- Irishman James Hoban -- he was the only president never to live in the White House.

Reflection Pool

 

In Washington, D.C., the Reflecting Pool is a shallow pool of water that lies between the World War II Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial, adjacent to the National Mall and the Washington Monument. It has a depth of approximately a foot (~ 30 cm). The Washington Monument is reflected in the pool.

Korean War Memorial  

 

The Korean War Memorial consists of 19 larger-than-life U.S. ground troopers equipped for battle moving toward an American flag. Etched into the granite are photographs of hundreds of faces taken from military archives

World War II Memorial

 

The World War II Memorial honors the 16 million who served in the armed forces of the U.S., the more than 400,000 who died, and all who supported the war effort from home

FDR Memorial  

 

Roosevelt reportedly told Felix Frankfurter that he wanted nothing more than a plain block of stone the size of his desk erected in front of the National Archives. Such a memorial was built during the 1960s.

Jefferson Memorial

 

At its center, a towering 19-foot bronze portrait statue (the plaster one, in position until after WWII, is in the basement, too large to be removed intact) stands on a 6-foot pedestal. Panels are inscribed with excerpts of Jefferson's writing, including one that best sums up the man: "I have sworn upon the alter of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

Iwo Jima Memorial  

 

Iwo Jima is located approximately 650 mi. south of Tokyo. Almost 7,000 Americans were killed in action at Iwo Jima and more than 20,000 casualties. Three of the men who raised the flag at Mt. Suribachi were killed before the battle was over.

The Exorcist Stairs

 

These stairs have been known to be haunted by the ghosts of people who have taken that nasty fall to their death. Some of the DC residents have said that they have seen ghosts walking up and down the stairs at night.

Fords Theater

 

It is said that President Lincoln’s ghost is very active in haunting the theater where he was shot to his death, and also the ghost of his assassin John Wilkes Booth.

Omni Shoreham Hotel

 

People stayed in the bedrooms that supposedly the maid and daughter died in. Televisions blaring...music where there was no piano. We renovated the hotel in 2000. We gutted the space. It is now our largest suite--3 BR, $3000/night. We debated to keep the "Ghost Suite" name. It was called that by the employees who for many years reported an eerie presence. They had no prior knowledge of the history of the rooms. Nobody's reported anything since the renovation.

Hay-Adams Hotel

 

This hotel is built over the site of the Slidell House--where Marian "Clover" Adams committed suicide in 1885. She is said to open & close doors, turn on/off clock radios, hug and call housekeepers by name and can be heard crying. She has also been heard asking, "What do you want?"

Fords Theater

 

According to author John Alexander, the building has always had problems with the elevators such as doors opening between floors and alarms going off with no one in the car. Also, the bells have rung on their own. It is possible it is the spirit of a former Postmaster General who fell to his death in an elevator shaft the day it opened.

National Building Museum  

 

I pity the security guards at this place. One went screaming from the building after seeing the ghost of a man. Another was chased by a soldier with a sword on horseback (maybe Montgomery Meigs--the building designer--himself?). Not to mention that the columns themselves--some of the tallest in the world--are said to get swirling faces in their capitals at the top.